Applied AI Engineer

Applied AI Engineer London OR Edinburgh ££very competitive££ We’re partnering with an established financial services organisation to recruit an Applied AI Engineer, helping turn advances in generative AI into practical solutions for customers and colleagues. You’ll own the engineering journey from architecture and model selection through to deployment and ongoing operation. The work spans retrieval, agentic systems and the shared tooling that helps teams build and scale AI across the business. What you’ll be doing • Designing and building GenAI solutions over enterprise data • Developing retrieval, agent and orchestration systems • Building and improving training, fine tuning and inference pipelines • Developing data tooling for text, documents, audio and visual inputs • Deploying secure, scalable systems and monitoring their reliability, latency and cost • Working closely with scientists, product teams and platform engineers What we’re looking for • Strong software and ML engineering experience in production • Excellent Python skills and experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow • Practical understanding of GenAI architectures and their trade offs • Experience with vector databases, retrieval systems and embedding pipelines • Experience deploying and operating ML systems in cloud or regulated environments • Strong testing, monitoring and security practices, with experience applying MLOps or LLMOps Why this role? You’ll have the opportunity to influence how a major financial services organisation builds and uses GenAI. Your work will connect emerging techniques with real business needs, with ownership of both delivery and how systems perform once they are in use. Interested? Send me your CV or a message for a confidential discussion. #AIJobs #GenerativeAI #MachineLearning #Python #UKJobs